President Donald Trump plans to establish a panel to examine how climate change affects national security.
Americans worry about missiles from foreign enemies and a future massive earthquake, but Mother Nature may one day drown the entire Southland.
The infamous climate agitator El Niño has finally arrived, climate scientists announced Feb. 14, after months of promises.
When Amazon.com was seeking a location for one of its new headquarters, many cities, including Palmdale and Los Angeles, submitted their municipal resumes in hopes of being the chosen location.
A top Trump administration official warned that voting machines must produce paper receipts to protect against hacking in the 2020 election, Bloomberg news reported.
The family that owns about half of Kern County’s gold and silver mine near Mojave has offered to buy the other half from the Canadian company running the operation, the Bakersfield Californian has reported.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was found guilty, on Tuesday, of all charges against him, in a trial that offered rare insight into the internal workings of the most powerful cartel in Mexico.
The highly controversial plans to build a high-speed train to operate between San Francisco and Los Angeles were brought to a temporary halt, Tuesday, by California’s new governor Gavin Newsom.
Bill Gates, for many years, was listed as the richest person in the world.
Here are some figures that you’ll be hearing about as politicians are already powering up their 2020 campaigns for the presidency.
The transition from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidency was a particularly traumatic time in our nation’s history.
There may be more changes in the sequence that involves three of Virginia’s top government officials in a shaky timeline.
The Washington D.C. high drama offerings this winter included a one-day theatrical performance starring Matthew Whitaker and congressional players.
Doctors working to find how to treat pain
The line from the song “The Lady is a Tramp” finally has become the truth and nothing but the truth.
The Magnetic Model update was officially released on Feb. 4 and the magnetic north can again be precisely located for people around the world.
“Tonight I ask you to choose greatness.”
California’s housing crisis was bad enough last year, when Gov. Gavin Newsom — then a mere candidate — called for building 350,000 new units every year for the next decade.
Some of the problems facing most communities haven’t been solved yet, even with many technologies coming up with keen ideas.
The 2019 new year got off to a fine start with 304,000 jobs added in January, even though there was a 35-day partial government shutdown.
The American Heart Association has revealed that nearly half of the adults in the United States have some type of cardiovascular disease.
Three companies are working to build supersonic airliners, but environmental groups are worried that the planes would add substantial amounts of greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere.
America’s 17 intelligence agencies’ “Worldwide Threat Assessment” was delivered to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Jan. 29.
We offer this editorial with a great deal of skepticism.
The once huge ISIS “caliphate” has been virtually wiped out. All that’s left in Syria are a few hundred die-hard Islamic State fighters based in two small villages.
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Last year, banks reported 24,454 suspected cases of elder financial abuse to the Treasury Department. It set a new record.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Jan. 23, that he is launching a legal challenge against the United States government.
A deal involving President Donald Trump and congressional leaders will temporarily reopen the government.
In one of the major developments unfolding in the long-running investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller, Roger J. Stone was indicted on Friday.
Last year, China’s economic expansion decelerated to its slowest pace in nearly three decades.
A lot of Americans keep track of the employment gains or losses for the whole country when the figures are released at the end of each month.
President Donald Trump, who originally said he would take the blame for a government shutdown, on Saturday, outlined a deal to Democrats.
Yes, we know we have crime in the Antelope Valley, but four men shot, with only one survivor, signals that we’re not the high desert placid place we’ve felt relatively safe in for decades.
In the steamy atmosphere of chaos-wracked Washington D.C., Democrats, media opinion writers and talkers have often complained bitterly about how GOP leaders have failed to police their ranks on the charged issue of race.
This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.”
If loyalty goes only so far, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham’s goes every which way — depending on the day, week, month — or proximity to Election Day.
It’s been almost 41 years since Proposition 13 passed in 1978, lowering property taxes for every home, apartment building, commercial structure, farm and parking lot in California.
On at 7:11 p.m., Pacific time, Jan. 17, BuzzFeed News filed a blockbuster stink bomb that quickly became the hot lead story for TV’s opinion shows.
The media’s “President Donald Trump is a congenital liar” narrative reeks of rampant hypocrisy to those who repeatedly complained while the same media gave President Barack Obama pass after pass for eight years. Obama wanted to become a “transformational” president. He succeeded, thanks in l…
Here are a couple of easy immigration questions — answerable with a simple “yes” or “no” — we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who…
The Dunning-Krueger effect is not a disease, syndrome or mental illness — it is present in everybody to some extent.
This editorial is based on two current journalistic pieces that relate to climate change.
In an article written by John Cox, appearing in The Bakersfield Californian, he cited a variety of ways the nation’s shutdown is causing detrimental situations in Kern County.
Change’s 4, a lunar mission that achieved a soft landing on the far side of the moon on Jan. 2, is sending great photos and a signal back to Earth that China is surging ahead in the latest space race.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has written one of the most upbeat articles of the year.
When people visit a doctor, they may have temperature, heart rate and blood pressure measured. But there’s no stethoscope for pain.
The dozens of people investigating illicit connections between the United States and Russia scored twice early in the week. Here are the revelatory stories:
The 40th governor of California, Gavin Newsom, was sworn in, Jan. 7.
For generations, pot was illegal.
Despite a wildly gyrating stock market, employers added 312,000 jobs to America’s employment statistics in December — about twice the number the experts expected.
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